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docs: mm: fix vm overcommit documentation for OVERCOMMIT_GUESS

Vratislav Bendel requested to merge vbendel-public/centos-stream-9:docs_overcommit into main

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Summary of Changes

Backport update of overcommit documentation.

Approved Development Ticket

https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-8588

======================================================= docs: mm: fix vm overcommit documentation for OVERCOMMIT_GUESS

JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-8588

commit d17ff438a0366f9dcd764ea94c54837873f30724 Author: Vratislav Bendel vbendel@redhat.com Date: Mon Aug 29 14:46:38 2022 +0200

docs: mm: fix vm overcommit documentation for OVERCOMMIT_GUESS

Commit 8c7829b04c52 "mm: fix false-positive OVERCOMMIT_GUESS failures"
changed the behavior of the default OVERCOMMIT_GUESS setting.
Reflect the change also in the Documentation, namely files:
    Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
    Documentation/mm/overcommit-accounting.rst

Reported-by: Jozef Bacik <jobacik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vratislav Bendel <vbendel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220829124638.63748-1-vbendel@redhat.com

Signed-off-by: Vratislav Bendel vbendel@redhat.com

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